The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 15

But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib’s hammock with Petersen Sahib’s shooting-coat under his head, and a glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and wound up with:

Who acts: native children, nerves, Kala, old hairy scarred hunters · What happens: have, speak, lie, sit, look, be · To what, where: nerves, hammock, three, spirit, tale, short words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native children, nerves, Kala, old hairy scarred hunters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
4	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 nerves	det
8	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nerves	amod
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 worth	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 speaking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lying	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	aux
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 have	advcl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 contentedly	advmod
20	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	18 lying	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 hammock	case
22	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hammock	nmod:poss
23	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Petersen	flat
24	’s	's	PART	_	22 Petersen	case
25	hammock	hammock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	32 coat	case
27	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 coat	nmod:poss
28	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Petersen	flat
29	’s	's	PART	_	27 Petersen	case
30	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coat	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 shooting	punct
32	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 glass	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 glass	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 glass	det
39	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 milk	case
41	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 milk	amod
42	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 glass	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 brandy	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 brandy	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 brandy	amod
46	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 milk	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 dash	punct
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 dash	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 dash	det
50	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 glass	appos
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 quinine	case
52	quinine	quinine	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dash	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 him	punct
54	inside	inside	ADP	_	56 him	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 him	case
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 dash	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 sat	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 sat	cc
59	while	while	SCONJ	_	69 sat	mark
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 hunters	det
61	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 hunters	amod
62	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 hunters	amod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 hairy	punct
64	scarred	scarred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 hunters	amod
65	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 sat	nsubj
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 jungles	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 jungles	det
68	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 hunters	nmod
69	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 him	conj
70	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	69 sat	obj
71	deep	deep	ADV	_	70 three	advmod
72	before	before	ADP	_	73 him	case
73	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 three	nmod
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 looking	punct
75	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 sat	advcl
76	at	at	ADP	_	77 him	case
77	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 looking	obl
78	as	as	ADV	_	75 looking	advmod
79	though	though	SCONJ	_	83 spirit	mark
80	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 spirit	nsubj
81	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 spirit	cop
82	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	83 spirit	det
83	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 looking	obl
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 spirit	punct
85	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 told	nsubj
86	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 spirit	parataxis
87	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	88 tale	nmod:poss
88	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 told	iobj
89	in	in	ADP	_	91 words	case
90	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	91 words	amod
91	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 told	obl
92	,	,	PUNCT	_	96 will	punct
93	as	as	SCONJ	_	96 will	mark
94	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	95 child	det
95	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	96 will	nsubj
96	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	86 told	ccomp
97	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 wound	punct
98	and	and	CCONJ	_	99 wound	cc
99	wound	woun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	86 told	parataxis
100	up	up	ADP	_	99 wound	compound:prt
101	with	with	ADP	_	99 wound	obl
102	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	native children	no nerves					tree rules
2	speak speech: other	gerund	no nerves not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past · progressive	Kala			Petersen's hammock	hour	with Petersen's shooting coat; under Kala's head; contentedly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hammock=Location
4	sit	past	the old hairy scarred hunters of the jungles	three			before Kala		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent three=Theme before he=Location
5	look	gerund	the old hairy scarred hunters of the jungles not said here					at Kala	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
6	is a	past	Kala	a spirit					tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past	Kala		Kala's tale	short words			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
8	woun up	participle							tree rules
9	tell		Kala						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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